Fundraising concert for Pieta HouseFundraising concert for Pieta House

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

A FUNDRASIING concert for Pieta House takes place in Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday March 15 from 10pm.

Get down to Motown @ HALO

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

SOUL FANS can look forward to Ireland’s leading Motown big band experience, The Papa Zitas, upstairs at HALO Live tomorrow night from 11pm.

Youth exhibition on city architecture

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

ARTWORKS, SOUND pieces, photographs, and poetry inspired by the architecture of Galway city’s west end forms the basis of a new, youth led, exhibition.

Two exhibitions open this weekend

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

TWO EXHIBITIONS open this weekend, one in the Galway Arts Centre, featuring short films, the other in The Shed at the docks, featuring large-scale works.

Poetry reading at city museum

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

DESPITE BEING one of the key movers and shakers in the west of Ireland poetry scene, Kevin Higgins has not given a major public reading in Galway since 2007.

That changes tomorrow evening at 8pm in The Kitchen at the Galway City Museum at the March Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering, which will be a showcase reading for Skylight 47, the new poetry publication.

The silent heroes

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

OVER THE last three years or so, there has been a continuous growth in the number of books published inside and outside Ireland relating to the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War, and Irish involvement in the First World War.

The spirit of literary free enterprise

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

THE NEWBIE writers of Galway are an enterprising lot. Not for them the hours we spent gazing into tepid cappuccinos and complaining about what Cúirt or Poetry Ireland were not doing for us.

Epic poem on Gibraltar killings re-published

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

AN EPIC poem, written by a man who spent many years living in Galway, about the killing of three IRA members in Gibraltar in 1988 has been published in a new edition.

‘The tautness of a bow’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

GIFTED GALWAY dance company Chrysalis grace the Black Box Theatre next week with its new production, Slings and Arrows, which will showcase its remarkable versatility and promises to be a visceral feast for the senses.

The show is a double-bill in which the featured pieces are Bow and Arrow, a new work for six dancers with an original score, and Symphony in Sync which is set to the ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ concertos from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Eclipsed and the world of the Magdalene Laundries

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE DIFFERING reactions to the Magdalene Laundries over the years have been mirrored in the responses to Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed, which will have a staged reading in Galway next week.

Villagers to play Seapoint

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

WHEN VILLAGERS take to the stage of the Seapoint Ballroom in Salthill on Thursday March 14 at 8pm, it will be for one of the most anticipated gigs of the year.

Josef Locke – ‘Three times the size of life’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE COLOURFUL life and remarkable career of singer Josef Locke is celebrated in a new show, Blaze Away!, which comes to the Town Hall this Saturday at 8pm.

Born in Derry, Locke was a hugely popular entertainer from the 1940s through to the 1960s, with hits like ‘Hear My Song, Violetta’, ‘Come Back to Sorrento’, ‘Cara Mia’, and ‘Blaze Away’. His careers also had plenty of offstage drama with numerous love affairs and a headline-making run-in with the taxman that forced him to flee Britain.

Family concert of Javanese music

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ENTRANCING sound of the Javanese gamelan will fill St Patrick’s Brass Band Hall this Sunday at the next Adventures In Music family concert.

Alone It Stands @ Town Hall

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THOSE DOWNCAST by Ireland’s injuries, defeats, and bad luck in the Six Nations, which sees us out of the running with more games still to play, take heart.

Children’s show at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

AN TAIBHDHEARC’S Saturday shows for families continues with Graffiti Theatre Company’s Walking Man/An Fear Siúil by Jody O’Neill at 11am and 1pm.

New books from Futa Fata

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ADVENTURES of a pirate girl, and a tiny tiger in search of his teddy, are two new books for children from An Spidéal based publishers Futa Fata.

Lísín - Scoil na Páistí Deasa (Lísín – The school for Posh Kids) written by Patricia Forde and illustrated by Joelle Dreidemy centres on Lísín, a pirate who is forced to attend school, on land. Her classmates are rather stuck up, but she is determined to train them in the art of piracy.